Definition of Intestines

1. Noun. (plural of intestine) ¹

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Definition of Intestines

1. intestine [n] - See also: intestine

Medical Definition of Intestines

1. The portion of the alimentary canal extending from the pyloric opening of the stomach to the anus. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intestines

intestinal perforation
intestinal polyps
intestinal pseudo-obstruction
intestinal rotation
intestinal sand
intestinal schistosomiasis
intestinal stasis
intestinal steatorrhoea
intestinal surface of uterus
intestinal tract
intestinal trunks
intestinal villi
intestinally
intestine
intestinelike
intestines (current term)
intestinotoxin
intestinum
intestinum caecum
intestinum ileum
intestinum jejunum
intestinum rectum
intestinum tenue
intestinum tenue mesenteriale
intetrix
intetumumab
intext
intexticated
intextine

Literary usage of Intestines

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1832)
"On the Formation of Fat in the intestines of living Animals. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. Presented by the Society for promoting the Knowledge of Animal ..."

2. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt, John Howland (1911)
"In a series of 386 autopsies upon tuberculous cases from my own hospital records, the intestines were involved in 40 per cent. The great majority of the ..."

3. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie, James Wardrop (1833)
"There are only two ways in which air can well be conceived to be formed in the intestines: the one is, by some chemical change in the contents of the ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"THE LYMPHATIC SYSTEM OF THE intestines. The lymphatic glands of the small intestines are placed between the layers of the mesentery, occupying the meshes ..."

5. Text-book of Meat Hygiene: With Special Consideration of Antemortem and by Richard Heinrich Edelmann, John Robbins Mohler, Adolph Eichhorn (1919)
"Every bundle of intestines has, in accordance with its origin from the various countries, a certain length, or it contains a certain number of intestines. ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1869)
"Now. experience has shown us that obstruction of the small intestines is often sudden and severe, so as to give rise to such an influence, ..."

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